You can put two complete sentences together with two types of sentence glue; either a comma and a conjunction, or with a semicolon. Practice with the following sentences.

1. I went to the store I bought some books.
2. Shelley ate her peas and she ate her carrots.
3. Mrs. Hislop plays the piano she loves to sing, too.
4. I love teaching junior high students they are more fun than high school students.
5. We celebrate Christmas in December we also celebrate Chanukah.

1/3 to 1/7

Monday 1/3:
1. Binder Reminders and Journals
2. Finish The Outsiders Book
3. The Outsiders Review Game
HW: Outsiders test tomorrow!

Tuesday 1/4:
1. Journals
2. The Outsiders Test
HW: NO HW!

Wednesday 1/5:
Computer Lab
1. Learning Targets Survey
2. Blog Comment
3. Plato
HW: NO HW!

Thursday 1/6:
1. Journals
2. Review The Outsiders Test
3. 7 Writing Traits
HW: Memorize the writing traits

Friday 1/7:
1. Journals
2. 7 Writing Traits
3. Personal Responses--FD
HW: Work on your FD Personal Response

Please correct the punctuation and capitalization in the following sentences:

1. i went to the movies and saw romeo and juliet.
2. mrs hislop said how are you today
3. i am going to visit santa fe new mexico someday.
4. i am going to watch the dog and she will water the plants
5. clean your room and eat your dinner

Add quotation marks to the following dialogue:

Hi said Mrs. Hislop.

Hi said her class.

How are you? asked Mrs. H.

We're great! said her class.

We are going to learn a lot today, said Mrs. Hislop.

We can't wait! answered her class.

12/13 to 12/16

Monday 12/13:
1. Binder Reminders and Journals
2. Review Outsiders Test
3. Review for District Benchmark Test
HW: Study Guide

Tuesday 12/14:
1. District Benchmark Test

Wednesday 12/15:
1. The Outsiders Movie (Durst Theater)
HW: The Outsiders Movie Questions

Thursday 12/16:
1. The Outsiders Movie (Durst Theater)

12/6 to 12/10

Monday 12/6:
1. Binder Reminders and Journals
2. Grammar Review
3. The Outsiders
HW: Grammar Review

Tuesday 12/7:
1. Journals and Grammar Review
2. The Outsiders
HW: Grammar Review

Wednesday 12/8:
1. Journals and Grammar Review
2. The Outsiders
HW: The Outsiders Final Test Study Guide

Thursday 12/9:
1. Journals and Grammar Review
2. The Outsiders
HW: The Outsiders Final Test Study Guide

Friday 12/10:
1. The Outsiders Final Test